Kick up your heels with Hutchinson Community Education dance classes

One of the iconic images of the 1970s is John Travolta’s white disco suit from the blockbuster movie, “Saturday Night Fever.” If you feel the need to channel your inner “Tony Manero,” Hutchinson Community Education has just the place to do it.

Beginning Monday through Nov. 3, Aaron Clarey will slide, dip and shimmy his way through three dance classes: Ballroom Basics Swing Dancing at 6:30 p.m., swing dancing at 7:30 p.m., and Salsa, Salsa Salsa at 8:30 p.m. at West Elementary Cafeteria, 875 School Road S.W. The fee is $39 per person or $75 per couple.

Clarey is celebrating his 10th anniversary teaching dance. “I started when I was 23,“ he said. “I really owe my dance career to community education as they’re the only people that gave me a shot when I was so young.”

Clarey got interested in dancing by falling in love with the idea of asking a girl to dance and having the skill to back it up.

“Life is really too short not to dance,” he said.

To register or for more information, call Hutchinson Community
Education at (320) 587-2975, or stop by the Hutchinson Recreation
Center, 900 Harrington St. S.W.

To read more, see the print edition of the Hutchinson Leader for Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008.

(Kay Johnson is a staff writer at the Hutchinson Leader. She can be reached at johnson@hutchinsonleader.com).